perlnews raiph <ul> <li>We have 156 registered for the conference so far. To see who is planning to go, use the <a href="http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/search">Search YAPC::NA 2013 Users link</a>. </li> <li>We've switched on ticket purchasing. Conference tickets are $100, or $80 for early birds (<a href="http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/purchase">purchase by May 1st</a>). </li> <li>Please submit talks by March 15th. For more info see <a href="http://blog.yapcna.org/post/43629142728/call-for-speakers-for-yapc-na-2013-in-austin">our recent blog post about submitting talks</a>. </li> <li>We've received payment from seven sponsors so far and have begun thanking them on the website and elsewhere. cPanel, based in Houston, Texas, have donated $10k in cash and lots more in ongoing support across the board. Thank you cPanel! (Their <a href="http://cpanel.net/jobs-site/">job site</a>.) </li> <li>The top 6 ideas at our 2013 <a href="http://ideas.yapcna.org">Ideas Collector</a> (please, only vote if you are going) are: <ul> <li>Moderated panel on perl's future <li>Stand Up Dinner <li>Continuous Development Workflow <li>REST server on Dancer <li>BOF: Perl Wrappers For Web Services <li>Git Training by Schwern (post conference) </ul> Just 3 folk so far think we should <a href="http://ideas.yapcna.org/idea/47917702-7CC0-11E2-81AD-8AC49D4F7835/provide-yapc-t-shirts-in-kid-s-sizes">Provide YAPC T Shirts in kid sizes</a>. And talking of tees: </li> <li>Please help us fill out <a href="http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/yapc-history.html">our important historical record of YAPC::NA tee shirts</a>. See <a href="http://blog.yapcna.org/post/43757196859/got-conference-shirts">Got Conference Shirts?</a> for how to win bonus points. </li> </ul> If you want to be part of what will probably be a pivotal conference shaping the future of Perl, go <a href="http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/register">register now</a>. If you can't make it, please spread the word instead. Thanks. :) Later, YAPC::NA 2013 Team